Backend Engineer Graduate (TikTok ShortText Recommendation Infrastructure) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TIKTOK PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Singapore is looking for graduates to join their Recommendation Architecture Team. You will build and optimize recommendation systems, enhancing user experience through stable online services. Ideal candidates are recent graduates in Computer Science or related fields with programming experience in languages like C, C++, Java, or Golang. The role offers substantial career growth opportunities within a dynamic and culturally diverse environment.

Benefits

Yoga and fitness

Stock options

Positive team atmosphere

Career growth opportunity

Paid leave

Flat organization

Competitive compensation

Flexible hours

Qualifications

• Background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Golang.
• Strong communication skills and a sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system.
• Design and develop globalized large‑scale recommendation systems.
• Develop efficient data pipelines for profile generation and real-time online training.

Skills

Programming skills in C, C++, Java or Golang

Effective communication skills

Sense of ownership and drive

Collaboration and teamwork

Education

Final year or recent graduate in Software Development, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

Job highlights

• Yoga and fitness
• Stock options
• Positive team atmosphere
• Career growth opportunity
• Paid leave
• Flat organization
• 100+ mil users
• Industry experts
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible hours

Responsibilities

Our Recommendation Architecture Team is responsible for building up and optimizing the architecture for recommendation systems to provide the most stable and best experience for our TikTok users. We cover almost all the short-text recommendation scenarios in TikTok, such as search suggestions, the video-related search bar, and comment entities. Our recommendation system supports personalized sorting for queries, optimizing the user experience and improving TikTok's search awareness.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok.

• Build and maintain high performance online services for TikTok recommendation system.
• Build extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines for candidate generation, profile generation, training examples generation, realtime online training, etc.
• Build globalized large‑scale recommendation systems.
• Design and develop high performance computing frameworks and storage systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Final year or recent graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience in programming, included but not limited to, the following programming languages: C, C++, Java or Golang.
• Effective communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile, quick self‑learner, highly self‑motivated with a strong sense of product ownership and creative problem solver.
• Good collaborator and team player, comfortable working in a fast‑moving, culturally diverse and globally distributed team environment.

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